Pure drawing is an abstraction.
PAUL CEZANNEWhen I judge art, I take my painting and put it next to a God made object like a tree or flower. If it clashes, it is not art.
More Paul Cezanne Quotes
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Shadow is a colour as light is, but less brilliant; light and shadow are only the relation of two tones.
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A work of art which did not begin in emotion is not art.
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Art first of all is optical. That’s where the material of our art is: in what our eyes think.
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I advance all of my canvas at one time.
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I ask you to pray for me, for once age has overtaken us, we find consolation only in religion.
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Painting, like any art, comprises a technique, a workmanlike handling of material, but the accuracy of a tone and the fictitious combination of effects depend entirely on the choice made by the artist.
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Design and color are not distinct and separate. As one paints, one draws. The more the colors harmonize, the more the design takes form. When color is at it’s richest, form is at its fullest.
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An art which isn’t based on feeling isn’t an art at all feeling is the principle, the beginning and the end; craft, objective, technique – all these are in the middle.
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Under this fine rain I breathe in the innocence of the world. I feel coloured by the nuances of infinity. At this moment I am one with my picture. We are an iridescent chaos.
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When I start thinking, all is lost.
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There is no light painting or dark painting, but simply relations of tones.
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Time and reflection change the sight little by little ’till we come to understand.
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It’s so fine and yet so terrible to stand in front of a blank canvas.
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You must think. The eye is not enough; it needs to think as well.
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The truth is in nature, and I shall prove it.
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Chatter about art is almost always useless.
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We must not be content to memorize the beautiful formulas of our illustrious predecessors. Let us go out and study beautiful nature.
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One does not substitute oneself for the past, one merely adds to it a new link.
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All the theories mess you up inside.
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The painter must enclose himself within his work; he must respond not with words, but with paintings.
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Painting is founded on the heart controlled by the head.
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Light is a thing that cannot be reproduced, but must be represented by something else – by color.
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Optics, developing in us through study, teach us to see.
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It’s not just about looking and copying, it’s about feeling too.
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You have to hurry up if you want to see something, everything disappears.
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Tell me, do you think I’m going mad? I sometimes wonder, you know.
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